My name is Michael A. Livens. A little history about me, I was born and raise in Arlington, Texas in 1988. I attended a Fort Worth High School by the name of Nolan Catholic in '02-'06. I managed to move a few miles east to UTA and graduated in '10 with a BBA Finance. After spending a year of job searching, I realized that my only option at the time was attending UTA MBA school. Fun Fact: I was accepted in the MBA Fort Worth Cohort Program the same week I was offered a position at Fidelity Investments as a Fund Accounting Analyst. It was a clear blessing at the time, but it been a definite challenge balancing work and school and managing my time.
Some hobbies of mine include outdoor activities like hiking, camping, and fishing. I also, enjoy listening to music of all styles. My interest are outdoors, music, cars (working on them, driving in general, and racing), puzzles, financial markets (news and investing), real estate, all sports (watching and playing). Hobbies and interests, more to come...
What is unique about me... I've never broken a bone in my body and yet i've been in some major collisions. For example, in high school I rode moto-cross dirtbikes for fun with my friends and father, my mother didn't approve of it and she had good reason for it. Well one weekend we packed up the bikes in our trucks and drove to Oklahoma to a nice ATV/dirtbike camp for the weekend. On our first day I hit a patch of deep sand and lost the back end of the bike. I collided with tree, blacked out, and woke up 20 yards from the bike. The bike wedged itself between two trees, and bending the solid steel foot brake 90 degrees. After taking a short nap, I woke up to people standing around me, and asking me if I was okay. Of course, I didn't remember anything. The next morning I woke up completely bruised from my thighs to my chest, but surprisingly no broken bones. I wouldn't call it unique... more like lucky.
I have never really given a bucket list thought, but here it goes...
1. Drift a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Audi, and Porsche
2. Get married, buy a house, start a family, and be able to pay for my kids college tuition.
3. Travel to London, and try Fish and Chips.
4. Travel to Le Mans, France, and watch the 24 Hours of Le Mans race
5. Go to the
6. Accumulate a $1,000,000 worth of both physical and investment real estate assets
7. Buy a brand new Audi car or suv with cash.
8. Become financially secure to the point where I don't have to worry about market movements or taxes.
Not bad...
My favorite sites.... I have 50+ sites, but here are a few of them. (financial, personal, sports, and automotive)
http://www.marketwatch.com/ https://www.fidelity.com/
http://online.wsj.com/home-page
http://artofmanliness.com/
http://mademan.com/
http://espn.go.com/
http://www.bloomberg.com/
http://seekingalpha.com/
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.investopedia.com/
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/
http://www.wimp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.cartalk.com/
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/index.htm
The reason why I've signed up to take REAE 5311 is because it's the only elective that I have an honest interest in. Both of my parents are in the real estate industry. My mom works for HUD and my father is a commercial broker/residential appraiser. Apparently it's in my fate to get into real estate : ). All jokes aside though, I really find real estate interesting from the aspect of different structures, evaluations, and potential opportunties. Recently, I've submitted a degree change to pursue a dual degree in real estate or economics. My decision depends on how this class goes... No pressure Dr. Peterson ; ). I hope to take away from this course a vast amount of analytical knowledge about residential and commerical real estate properties. In turn, I plan on using those skills to adequate evaluate properties as future investments.
Short term career goals:
-Continue to expand my work experience and knowledge at Fidelity, move up in the hierarchial chain to management in the next 3-5 years.
Long term career goals:
-Transfer to Fidelity's Asset Management department where I can utilize my analytical skills to evaluate potential stock and bond investments in 5-10 years.
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